“His exploits faded behind the conjoined twins of popular news—terrorism and celebrity, which seemed to me, trained in the study of human cultures, only exaggerated aspects of the same mortal vanities: the need to make a mark; the belief that you alone matter.” [1]

Notes:
  1. Helping Them Take the Old Man Down, Preston, Asimov’s Science Fiction (Penny Publications) March 2010 – Highlight Loc. 15-17 [↩]
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